Rhi is smokinnnnn

So photoshop lady had some pretty cool tutorials on playing with text. I thought the smokey type looked pretty fun so I tried it out with my name! Whacha think??

Life at 20...

I did a tutorial on typography wallpaper. I liked th look of it and wanted to use it for my "twenty" postcard. I followed the tutorial but I added my own touch to it so I could use it for my postcard.....what do ya think?

http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-typography-wallpaper-photoshop

John's grl wuz hur!

To make my "john" postcard more creative I did a tutorial on how to create a desk environment. I learned how to make note book paper! I didn't realize that its just two different patterns on top of each other....its so simple! I also how to put scratches onto a wooden surface (or in this case the desk). I decided to do this tutorial with things that I could use in my project, so mine is all about lover boy John!! <3

Try this tutorial out! http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/how-to-create-a-desk-environment-in-photoshop-from-scratch/

More from Monday's crit...

So...I have a million ideas running throught my head about what to do for some of my other post cards thanks to my lovely classmates :) Here are my thoughts:

*For "twenty" I am not using the picture of the girl. I still want to create a montage but I want to use all type for this postcard. I want to have the number twenty as my main focus. The number will be created with quotes, words, sayings, thoughts, events, etc. of a twenty year old female. I found a tutorial on how to create something like this which I will post shortly :)

*For "gear" I originally had a picture of barbie that had arrows pointing to various parts of her body labeling her "gears." The idea behind this was to show how women's bodies are seen as objects or tools. This triggered the idea of comparing the woman's body to a car (two things that men are both obsessed with). Instead of labeling a woman's body I have decided to actually put the parts of the car onto the body. I believe this would be considered a montage. I am having trouble creating this though because so far what I have looks like I have just cut and pasted everything. I want the parts to look more realistic and actually curve to the body.

* I will post another tutorial along with the other one on how to create a desk environment. This is going to be for my "john" postcard. What I have now isn't bad, but I want to add more to it and this tutorial will really help out with that.

* I was given the idea to use barbie throughout some of my postcards instead of just on one of them. I plan on using barbie for "facade" but I'm not exactly sure how I want to create it yet. Thats something to be looking for on future posts....

babies :)

I have been working on some of my postcards from Monday's critique. Everyone seemed to like my "expectation" version with the baby on it so I decided to use that. I added words "mommy" and "congratulations" because I thought it needed to a little more to be considered a collage. I still might consider adding something else but I'm not exactly sure what at the moment. If you have any, let me know! :)

patterns and such...

I have been interested in learning how to make my backgrounds look more interesting than just a solid color so I decided to do a pattern tutorial. This tutorial was very simple and I am already creating different patterns to use in my postcard project. I have been taking the tutorial a few steps further and adding different things to them such as making them look like textures instead of just a pattern. Here is the pattern I created during the tutorial...

http://pshero.com/archives/creating-custom-patterns

Reflections.....

So I decided to do a photoshop tutorial on how to make a reflections on sunglasses. This tutorial was pretty easy. It was as simple as selecting the lenses with the lasso tool, merging two photos together, and creating a clipping mask. To make the reflection look more realistic on the glasses, I used the "spherize" tool and also added a "inner shadow." This tutorial was a great way to learn how to work with several different layers as well.

Try it out! http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/sunglasses/